Exploring The Waste Land
Questions linked from The Waste Land, Part II, line 100


Part II
Line 100

To what purpose is Eliot in his note to line 100 connecting these specific lines:

Or less specifically, what are the connections between

99)  The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
100)  So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
101)  Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
102)  And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
103)  'Jug Jug' to dirty ears.

To these lines?

203)  Twit twit twit
204)  Jug jug jug jug jug jug
205)  So rudely forc'd.
206)  Tereu


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